Category Theory basics: the football edition

Most successful football [upd: quarterback] plays comprise three commuting arrows.




https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/eagles/2018/02/05/nick-foles-trick-play-td-catch-super-bowl-philadelphia-eagles/306204002/

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Прошлой ночью снился активный секс с ведущими киноактрисами мира. С утра гадаю, какое отношение этот сон имеет к Теории Категорий.

Fucking Moron (tm)

Gary Cohn has resigned over the tariffs issue. No shit.

upd. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-06/trump-is-said-to-confront-cohn-on-trade-hours-before-resignation

This is a typical Competence vs Loyalty story.

Legally Stable Genius

The civil suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by NBC News, alleges that her agreement not to disclose her "intimate" relationship with Trump is not valid because while both Daniels and Trump's attorney Michael Cohen signed it, Trump never did.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/stormy-daniels-sues-trump-says-hush-agreement-invalid-because-he-n854246

It looks like somebody offered her a better deal. Free markets work!

Quote of the Day`

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I now think the difference b/w radical and incremental innovations lies in their respective domains. Their codomain is the same. In short, radical innovation (e.g. a paradigm shift) is a functor, while incremental innovation (e.g. "normal science") is an endofunctor.
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One of the implicit assumptions behind Bob Coecke's approach is that functions compose, i.e. domains and codomains match. This is true for natural processes. In artificial processes discovering/creating matching domains/codomains is a separate task.